When both Newmoon and Swirlpool release early Album of the Year candidates on the same day, you'd better believe we'll be celebrating both. But there's a good deal more to celebrate this weekend, to wit: Softcult, always other, Hayien, Bad Light, Appi, Flashes, Maquillage, Q&TB, stillfilms, and The Virginia Planes. And those are just the headliners. We're deep into so much new music it's hard to digest it all. Our […]
Culled hundreds of pitches and Bandcamp release notifications down to sixty crucial cuts for injection into New Tracks Weekend rotation, and we're pretty keen on the lot. Headliners this weekend include NewDad (pictured above), whose long-awaited debut LP is an early contender for album of the year. We're also celebrating Daysleepers' offshoot project Sinking Gardens, maintaining the impressive songcraft Jeff Kandefer is known for. We're also finally getting to spin […]
75+ new tracks, sorted and weighted, ready to take a bow on our airwaves. It's a lot, a lot of newness. First among equals: the debut from Pink Breath of Heaven (premiered on our air Wednesday night, not to be missed), Newmoon (video premiered here earlier this week), Yumi Zouma, Wishy (pictured above), Vivid Bloom, Sunsick Daisy, Punchlove, The Churchhill Garden, Little Oso, Meltway, Logos Lunares, frown line, Get Violet, […]
We first discovered Newmoon in January of 2016, as we were slightly late to lurch into the Invitation To Hold EP. But what was obvious was a certain mastery of sound and mood that these Belgian standouts possessed. Not overtly showy, more tightly controlled and expansive in their approach, it was obvious (to us, at least) that these lads were going somewhere. By the time their Space LP launched into […]
New weekend, and a great haul of new and compelling sounds on offer, fresh to us, fresh to you. Headliners this weekend include Newmoon (brilliant new song, premiered on Drowned in a Sea of Sound), april june (just unleashed a slew of new tracks via Nettwerk), Crystal Canyon, beach novels, Bright Arc (pictured above), skeever, ENDLESS, skymender, Wings of Desire, and The Veldt. But that barely scratches the surface: we're […]
The third hour of this month's DreamGaze Worldwide virtual festival has something for every taste. Magic moments are brought to bear from Newmoon, The Veldt, Tears Run Rings, Eternal Something, Daniel Land, Resplandor, and Soon She Said. It's almost all the entertainment you'll ever need. Except for hours one and two, and four through eight. But, sincerely, dare you not to be charmed by this hour's sonic sparkle. DreamGaze Worldwide […]
There aren't enough column inches to describe what we've put together for this weekend's DreamGaze Worldwide presentation. Superlatives like "new", "rare", "never-before-seen" fail to do justice to just what's been put together for our live virtual festival this weekend. We'll just enumerate a few highlights for you. New Age Healers (pictured above): The Seattle post-psychedelic shoegaze quartet unleash a world premiere with a little help from Katie Haley (Soft Science), […]
SO much newness to bring you. We're thrilled to premiere some gorgeously breezy tunes from Sutter. The Catching Feathers EP will be unleashed 17 June, but we've got a sneak peak all this weekend, and we think you'll adore it as much as we do. We're in love with the second release from STOMP TALK MODSTONE (pictured above), who continue to have a carefully-crafted vision of the sound, and where […]
You've heard it before: "we're overbooked"! Well, now more than ever... With new music from LACING, Soot Sprite, Newmoon and the RETURN of Monocism, we're already well burdened with fresh new sounds. But that's but the tip of this iceberg: Mellowtone charms, Dottie carves guitar sculptures in air, Billow continues to surprise. New music from Etherpool, Good Wilson, Wybercron, The Pink Elephants, Under Black Space, The Cherry Wave, Routine Death, […]
